misled
Americanadjective
verb
Etymology
Origin of misled
First recorded before 1000
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Nebahat Isbilen, a Turkish national, alleges that Selman Turk, her former adviser, misled her over a £750,000 payment made to Mountbatten-Windsor in 2019.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
In the Meta case, Roy and her team had argued that the social media giant had intentionally designed its products to hook young children and repeatedly misled the public about known risks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
AI optimism also lifted shares of Facebook owner Meta even after a New Mexico judge ordered the company to pay $25 billion to the state after the social-media company was found to have misled users.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Musk has only just settled the lawsuits from all the angry people who say they were misled.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Eric nearly collapsed, and Jesse mustered all his well- honed phone skills with the telephone company, talking his way past the first rank to a supervisor, then claiming he was misled.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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